Alwaght - Iraqi Defense Ministry in a statement released on Friday told a sum of 124 ISIS terrorists killed during Iraqi Army's airstrikes against their positions in Anbar, Kirkuk and Salahuddin provinces.
According to Ministry's statement Iraqi army's attacks destroyed terrorists' hideouts and vehicles as well as a so-called religious court in al-Sajaria region in Ramadi city.
Last week, Iraqi armies backed by popular forces get underway clean up operations in the town of Heet, West of the Baghdad killing 23 terrorists. Government forces also killed 25 ISIS terrorist group members, arrested 17 others, cleared three booby-trapped houses and defused seven improvised explosive devices following heavy clashes.
Meanwhile, Iraqi-based al-Sumaria TV quoted Spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Brigadier General Sa’ad Ma’an, as saying a total of 19 ISIS terrorist, including a higher-ranking Syrian commander, Abu Ammar al-Shaami, were killed when Iraqi aircraft precisely bombed terrorist hideouts in north of the town of Heet.
Elsewhere in Iraq, ten ISIS terrorists, among them two snipers, were killed as government forces embarked on a wipe out operation in the town of al-Karma, located 48 kilometers west of Baghdad. Two terrorists' hideouts and vehicles rigged with explosives were damaged, while a depot containing 81 mortar rounds, eight Katyusha rockets and eight homemade projectiles were discovered following the operation.